Some recipes recorded 4,000 years ago by humans appear to have similarities to a modern cuisine, and a few ingredients have ...

What it is: A cuneiform mathematical clay tablet with an incorrect answer Where it is from: Tell Ingharra, Kish (Sumer), modern-day Iraq When it was made: Old Babylonian period, between 1900 and ...

Cooking is an essential part of human culture, but people haven't always written down recipes the way we do now.

The unlikely researcher, George Smith, made one of archaeology's most sensational finds when he uncovered the cuneiform-inscribed clay tablet containing fragments of a lost Babylonian epic.

But after his death, it was ransacked and burned to the ground. Luckily, the texts were written on clay tablets, and so were baked and preserved by the heat. When the ruins of the library were ...

Ur, sent a clay tablet containing a complaint to a copper merchant named Eanasir. This tablet is recognized by the Guinness World Records as the world's oldest written customer complaint.